The Exodus is the founding myth of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch. The narrative describes a history of Egyptian bondage of the Israelites follo
The Departure of the Israelites (David Roberts, 1829)
Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867)
Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt by Charles Sprague Pearce (1877)
Moses parts the Red Sea (1907 print)
The Book of Numbers is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. The book has a long and complex history; its final form is possibly due to a Priestly redac
Page from the Leningrad Codex (AD 1008), showing part of Numbers 10
MS. Kennicott 3, created in 1299. Shows the beginning of Numbers with its first word illustrated with calligraphy: וידבר Way-ḏabbêr, "And He spoke…"
Priest, Levite, and furnishings of the Tabernacle
A Plague Inflicted on Israel While Eating the Quail (illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible)